“So I don’t think there should be any substantive talks on trade deals with India until they are released and brought back home.”

He added: “If India wants to deport them now, that’s fine by me and I reckon the lads won’t mind either.

“They just want to get home.”

The others held are John Armstrong, 29 from Cumbria, Nick Dunn, 30, from Northumberland, Nicholas Simpson, 46, of Catterick, North Yorks, Paul Towers, 53, of Pocklington, East Yorks, and Billy Irving, 36, from Oban.